Sixty-five of the 67 MPs who attended today's session voted for the new Kosovo government. Deputies of the Kosovo Democratic Alliance did not want to vote and deputies of the other two opposition parties, the Alliance for Kosovo's Future and the Self-Determination movement, walked out of the session.

Thaci's Kosovo Democratic Party and new Kosovo President Beghjet Pacolli's Alliance for New Kosovo constitute the backbone of the new Kosovo government.

Thaci was elected PM despite pressure from the international community over suspicions that the commander of the former Kosovo Liberation Army had been linked to trafficking in human organs during the war in Kosovo, which Thaci is fiercely denying.

The parliament also elected five deputy PMs and for the first time one of them is a member of the Serb community.

The new government will have 18 ministries, allocated in line with an agreement between the Kosovo Democratic Party, the Alliance for New Kosovo, the Ibrahim Rugova Slate, and minority communities.

The Kosovo parliament and government were dissolved on November 2 and early elections were held on December 12, with Thaci's party winning the most votes.

Upon being reappointed PM, Thaci presented his government's programme, telling MPs one of the priorities was dialogue with Serbia, which he said was in both countries' interest and which should end with each recognising the other.

Thaci's Cabinet must also deal with a 48 per cent unemployment rate.